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Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
… of organised popular liberation movements throughout Africa following the end of the Second World War was a … and housed large numbers of refugees from…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… question of the treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa be included in the agenda of second part of the first … Central African States in Lusaka…
Article1946 Mine Workers Strike timeline 1867-1987
… government to look for migrant workers outside South Africa, mainly from Mozambique and Malawi. 1970 Anglo American became the biggest mining group in…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… Soldier, and Spy Abstract Barry Gilder is one of South Africa’s most important revolutionaries that fought against … secret undercover role in Botswana on…
ArticleOliver Tambo Speeches 1971-1979
… 1971 Statement by OR Tambo to the People of South Africa on the 10th Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe . 16 … " Speech by Oliver Tambo at Meeting to…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… overlapping networks through material objects. When South Africa took over the administration of South West Africa from … support group of national…
ArticleAfrikaans community, 1883-1899
… of the 1890's were crucial in the shaping of modern South Africa and the peculiarities of its social order. Within that … followed by gold on the…
Four important figures in the South African Film Industry
… Isadore W. Schlesinger made his home in South Africa after the Boer war, and founded several insurance … (FEPACI) and has taught and mentored throughout…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… leaders are imprisoned. Leabua rules until 1986 1980 The Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) … Zimbabwe to lessen economic…
Cedric Nunn
… that will leave a positive legacy for the children of Africa'. Born in 1957 in Nongoma, KwaZulu, and raised in … national executive of the Professional…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… that became known for his musical work while living in Southern California during South Africa’s apartheid. In order to appropriately study a … slaves…
The National Tree
… family is primeval and has been present in this part of Africa for more than 100 million years. The species is widespread and is found from Table Mountain,…
Schlebusch Commission
… Christian Movement (UCM), the Christian Institute of Southern Africa (CI) and the South African Institute of Race Relations …
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… area, stretching from the Cape Colony to East and Central Africa. Some historians argue that it was set off by the rise … Zwide moved northwards into a…
ArticleKhoisan herder society in the Later Stone Age
… were the herders? The first herders, or pastoralists, in southern Africa were the Khoikhoi. They were also called Hottentots, … to say where the Khoikhoi…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… addition, it also became the birth place of many of South Africa’s strongest trade unions. Strong political and … against colonial rule which were finally…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… South Africa's racial policy and the UNO South Africa and apartheid … on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa," calling for…
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… and the history of black anthropology scholarship in Southern Africa. My M.A. research thesis is titled “A Hidden … in History specializing in memory…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… original meaning changed through the history of South Africa. It is a term used in archaeology, history and … more than a 100 million Negroid people who live…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
… name for ethnic groups of Bantu people residing in the Southern Africa. These groups are divided into Southern Nguni and Northern Nguni. The Southern Nguni…
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… VOC, established a station at the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa, in 1652. The intention was to provide a post where … Who are the Khoikhoi?…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2020 submissions
… Claire Albin Claire Albin is a sophomore at Southern Methodist University originally from Shreveport, … September Thomas Boatman Thomas Boatman, a senior at…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… journal and notes in the National Archives of South Africa in Pretoria where it was stored in a closed … the armed struggle against apartheid and colonialism…
ArticleXhosa
… and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South Africa's Black population and can be divided into four … and Central Nguni (the Zulu-speaking…
National Theatre Organisation (1947)
… promote and produce Afrikaans and English theatre in South Africa. The organisation was developed as a resolution to the … and organisation of theatre and…
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… of the end of apartheid society and governance in South Africa. Following an upsurge of violent and non-violent … state also attempted to extend its…
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… to improve the affairs of coloured people in South Africa. The Theron commission (1977) argued that the … in a multicultural and plural society like South…
ArticleNdebele
… and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South Africa’s Black population and can be divided into four … and Central Nguni (the Zulu-speaking…
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… Prehistory of the Region Pre-history of Southern Africa Africans who worked with copper and iron inhabited the … follow a front/back axis that identifies the…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… The emergence of South Africa's democracy in the 1990s The crisis of apartheid in … beyond South Africa's borders into other countries in southern Africa:…